When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

They would then use this new writing system to translate various texts into the language among them the Bible. He has won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest twice and was the recipient of the first Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 1998. He often compares Perl to a natural language and explains his decisions in Perl's design with linguistic rationale.

Larry Wall (born September 27 1954) is a computer programmer and author most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987.